Chen Xiaonan mentioned one thing in Tencent News' interview program "My Bronze Age".
The grandmother of the program director has Alzheimer's disease, and many memories have been gradually lost over the years, but whenever she sees Chen Peisi's sketch, she still laughs.
This kind of laughter is imprinted in the life trajectory of a generation.
When she talked about this little matter, the person sitting opposite was Chen Peisi, the subject of this interview.
Under the blazer was a pair of old cloth shoes, gray socks pulled above the ankle, and a squint and smile against the gray beard.
He talked about those past events every word, from entering the CCTV stage by mistake in 1989 to leaving in discouragement in 1998...
Looking back, it is no accident that Chen Peisi can become a comedy master.
In the show, Chen Peisi almost cried twice.
Because he spent his whole life looking for that ultimate purity, truth and goodness.
He repeated several times, "Man is sometimes inferior to animals." ”
He wants to be a good person, and he wants to meet good people around him.
Chen Peisi has always been a very "daring" person in the eyes of everyone, daring to say and do, everything outside, he is fearless of losing.
Where does this "dare" come from?
From the compassion of the heart, from the goodness of the heart.
He mentioned again and again that man is inferior to animals and man inferior to animals.
Because man always rationalizes his cruelty.
But animals don't, they have a kind of heroism that lasts to the death.
Many years ago, Chen Peisi went to Inner Mongolia to cut the team.
Life was difficult, hungry every day, and one day he and his companions ran to steal swan eggs in a swan nest in the field.
Halfway there, the villagers suddenly stopped and told them that the swan had lost its child and that it would be killed.
Although he was skeptical, Chen Peisi decided to send the goose eggs back.
He later learned that once the swan child was hurt, the female swan would sadly commit suicide.
Not only that, after a swan is injured, its companion will hover in the sky for a long time, crying sadly, and finally fall straight to the ground and die.
He remembered this incident in his heart for many years.
Man is much different from animals, and he clearly understands this after living most of his life.
People will have all kinds of rhetoric to prevaricate themselves, to comfort themselves, to rationalize many of their cruel things.
Carefully reading Chen Peisi's experience, you will find that people may not be as advanced as animals in some aspects.
Pascal once said, "Man is a reed that thinks." ”
But having thoughts also means complexity, the world is colorful, and if you can keep yourself, it is colorful, and if you can't keep it, it becomes a polluted big dye vat.
Over time, it changed its taste, as He Yong wrote in "The Garbage Dump":
"The world we live in is like a garbage dump, people are like insects, here you fight with me, what you eat is conscience, and all you pull is thought..."
Chen Peisi has been fleeing this garbage dump all his life.
"I can only live in clear water."
This is Chen Peisi's last stubbornness.
Years later, after seeing all kinds of unbearable things, he recalled the experience of cutting the queue back then, and even missed it.
There was the "clean" he had sought all his life.
It is clear that he is hungry, and he has to divide people's rations, and he obviously can't do the work in his hands, so he also has to help others.
There is no you to fight for me, there is no filth and filth.
Although bitter, it is bathed in the brilliance of humanity.
It is precisely because of this embarrassing years that he found a conscience and evolved into the king of comedy.
Once, at this time, he had already left the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Hearing the cry of a swan in the middle of the night, and instantly remembering the life of the young people in those days, I immediately couldn't suppress my emotions and sat up and cried.
It's not that it's bitter, but it's that it has taught you so strongly about beauty.
The old man had red eyes.
"You won't see so many good people after you leave there."
This passage is meaningful.
If you read his tears, you will understand why he said, "Good people are the most important." ”
Chen Peisi is like a fish looking for water, can only live in clear water, like an animal in a clean environment to complete self-purification.
So, over the years, we have moved away from the polluted environment.
After leaving the Spring Festival Gala for more than 20 years, the outside world has many opinions about Chen Peisi's past, and people have grafted a lot of pain on him in their imagination.
Some people feel sorry for his suffering, and some people empathize with his suffering.
For such a huge fame on the Spring Festival Gala stage, for many people, the temptation is extremely strong, how can it be easily put down.
However, this is not the case.
He shook his head and wrapped his arms around him.
"I can put it down, I won't go."
For the first time, the old man openly talked about the reason for leaving the Spring Festival Gala that year.
Because the environment is polluted.
At the Spring Festival Gala in 1998, the relationship between people became particularly cold.
Everyone has become utilitarian and guarded, even during rehearsals in private, they do not communicate, for fear that others will steal their own programs, they are very clear with each other, pretending not to know each other.
He is a person who cares about the kind of love and concern between people, and he can't live in a cold network.
Talking about the departure of the Spring Festival Gala in 1998, Chen Peisi aggravated his tone:
"Good people" is especially important.
He is a very picky man about the environment.
The old man said that in fact, many animals are also, and if the air is slightly polluted, it will not survive.
In this regard, he is very similar to animals.
So, after the Spring Festival Gala that year, he made a decision that he didn't have to come again in the future.
He couldn't stay any longer, he needed a clean environment.
Chen Xiaonan asked, have you ever thought of gritting your teeth and enduring, after all, it is the CCTV stage, which can maintain its highest traffic and reputation in the comedy industry.
Chen Lao said with a smile:
"So what am I going to lose? I'm going to lose more. ”
If you stay, you may be able to gain more fame and fortune, but then you may only be able to beg others and act according to the eyes of others.
Seeing that others are about to make mistakes, but you have to helplessly block your own mouth, like a puppet, what others ask you to do, you have to do.
Don't talk about artistic creation, you can't be a good individual.
In Chen Peisi's words, it is the loss of freedom.
Recalling his departure from CCTV, his eyes were full of sadness.
It is not sadness that he left the stage, but sadness that the goodness between people has been stolen.
This was the second time he had red eyes.
After leaving late spring, his life returned to tranquility.
Go up the mountain to plant trees and build houses, don't be more happy in that life.
That kind of indulgence and happiness of the mind is very free in nature.
This state of mind is like returning to childlike purity.
On a snowy day, the first footprints are taken, and the first wind blows down the apricot blossoms in spring.
It's too beautiful to help itself.
If you ask him, is he afraid to stay alone in the mountains?
He will shake his head firmly:
"Nope."
"Because you know no one hurts you."
He planted a pine tree in the yard.
Its branches are intricate, and Chen Peisi says he likes it very much.
Later, he gave the pine tree a name called "犟".
It represents an indomitable vitality.
Much like him.
All his life, he has struggled with human nature.
The ultimate purity of the heart is the background of Chen Peisi's life.
He never considered himself the king of comedy.
Letting those who suffer leave suffering is his original intention.
He said that comedy laughter is a very cruel thing.
Because the people were still living in a difficult situation, they limped, dragged their tired bodies, and smiled knowingly on their sad faces.
This smile is somewhat heartbreaking.
The common people have suffered for too long, and they should shoot more things that make them happy.
So later his posture became lower, playing ugly, miserable, and stupid as much as possible on the stage, so that he could give a comfort to the people in the audience.
You see, there's a guy here who lives worse than you, so you have to laugh.
Just like the old man with Alzheimer's disease, he forgot the troubles of the world, forgot the evil of people's hearts, and was able to laugh out loud.